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The Hidden Danger of Deleting Apps: Your Data Stays | Caitlin Sarian DSH #874
10 Nov 2024
Chapter 1: What are the hidden dangers of deleting apps?
I will say one thing people don't realize is if you do sign up for those accounts, a lot of people think that they delete those accounts when they delete the app, but they don't. So that's like one really important thing. Like when I tell people, people just delete the app and think it like disappears. Your data is still there.
Chapter 2: How can you protect your personal information online?
So unless you were like request to delete your account from them, like you actively email them or you put in a request and they confirm and then you delete that app, it's still sitting there on their servers. All right, guys, here with Caitlin Sarian here today. We're talking cybersecurity. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. Excited.
Chapter 3: What are the signs that you've been hacked?
Yeah, I think what you're teaching is very useful these days, especially people having kids. Yeah. You know, all these weird cases coming up.
Chapter 4: What risks are associated with SIM swapping?
I know. I honestly didn't realize it was like this big of a deal until some of my videos started going viral. And I was like, wow, actually, people need to know this. No, it's a big deal. I mean, kids are just freely getting iPads and iPhones in first grade now. Exactly. We're literally given technology before we can speak and no one's ever taught us how to use it.
Chapter 5: How can you track your phone number and protect it?
Yeah. So let's start with the basics on like ways to protect yourself, I guess, and specifically kids, because I feel like that's a big issue right now.
Chapter 6: What are the best practices for creating strong passwords?
Yeah. So, I mean, just for starters, you want to create like strong passwords. And that's like, I hate saying that because I want to hit my head against the wall every time. I think everyone says that, but it's super, super important. And a lot of people think, oh, if I have one really strong password, you know, that'll be fine.
And it's not because once that password is leaked, there are a lot of ways for hackers to just use that password and try a bajillion different ways and get into all your different accounts. So that's to start. The other thing is software updates, which I know is very controversial. A lot of people will reference that Apple would slow the phones down. That's one time.
Software updates are super important. They fix a lot of bugs and what we like to call zero day vulnerabilities or things that are vulnerable to that app. And so you want to make sure that they're updated constantly. The other thing is like open Wi-Fi networks.
Chapter 7: How does using a VPN enhance your online security?
If there's not a password and you're like connected to a Starbucks and you're on, you know, banking apps, like strongly suggest you do not do that and make sure that you log on to a Wi-Fi that actually has a password. Wow.
And also a lot of times people think, oh, well, there's a password. I'm just going to give Delta Lounge as an example. Delta Lounge has had the same password for like six months. So it really doesn't do that much good at that point. And so what you want to do is if you are connecting to kind of weaker systems, you want to get a VPN or a virtual private network.
Chapter 8: What should you know about webcam hacking and privacy?
It just encrypts the data going back and forth. Basically, it means that they can't read. If they get into that network, they can't read what's going back and forth on your system. So you're protecting yourself. Great advice. I see those VPN ads on podcasts all the time. So Nord and Express, those are good to use.
Yeah. And you can use multiple. So a lot of cybersecurity experts use multiple because sometimes you can kind of figure out that you're using a VPN if you're really trying to like dig deeper. But yeah, any of those are fine. What about incognito mode? Is that safe?
Incognito mode is mostly for yourself. It's not for other websites. They're still kind of collecting general information on you and a lot of times they're still collecting IP too. So incognito mode is really for your computer to forget where it went. So it's not saving it.
So for example, if you want to buy a gift for your girlfriend and you don't want her to know that you went on that website, go on incognito mode because she won't see your search history. But it's really for your personal preferences. It's not really that incognito for the rest of the websites that you go on.
And a lot of people think, oh, if I go on incognito mode and I go on Facebook, anything that you have to log into on incognito mode, it's still going to be tracking you because you're logged into that system. So it doesn't actually do very much. People think everything they do on incognito is hidden. It's not. It's not.
That is funny. Your most viewed videos are about like your personal information being online. So is that a pretty common thing?
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people want to learn how to erase themselves online. For example, when I was younger, you wanted to sign up for everything. You gave all your data. It wasn't a thing back then. And now all these data brokers in the US specifically have so much information. You'd be surprised that the information they're collecting, they're collecting it from the DMV.
They're collecting it from, let's just say a grocery store has rewards programs. all of that information gets sold to these data brokers, and then the data brokers compile it, and they can give you pretty much everything, and it's public, especially in the U.S.
I mean, it's crazy to think that we're concerned more about other countries having our data, yet we're selling our own people's data to these data brokers and then making it public for everyone. It's insane to me. But yeah, I mean, you can get parents' names, parents' addresses, everything. Dude, my shit was everywhere. It's everywhere.
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